LessonsQur’anic Argumentation: Polytheistic Beliefs and Their RefutationQuiz

Qur’an 42:51 distinguishes revelation, speech from behind a veil and the sending of a messenger as forms of divine communication. Human everyday experience does not exhaust the ways in which divine guidance may reach a person.

وَمَا كَانَ لِبَشَرٍ أَنْ يُكَلِّمَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَّا وَحْيًا أَوْ مِنْ وَرَاءِ حِجَابٍ
It is not for a human that Allah should speak to him except by revelation or from behind a veil (Qur’an 42:51, relevant excerpt).

The choice of a messenger and the occurrence of extraordinary signs are linked to divine wisdom, not to a requirement that every individual receive identical signs on demand.

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Modes of revelation and the limits of human objections

Qur’anic Argumentation: Polytheistic Beliefs and Their Refutation

Qur’an 42:51 distinguishes revelation, speech from behind a veil and the sending of a messenger as forms of divine communication. Human everyday experience does not exhaust the ways in which divine guidance may reach a person.

وَمَا كَانَ لِبَشَرٍ أَنْ يُكَلِّمَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَّا وَحْيًا أَوْ مِنْ وَرَاءِ حِجَابٍ
It is not for a human that Allah should speak to him except by revelation or from behind a veil (Qur’an 42:51, relevant excerpt).

The choice of a messenger and the occurrence of extraordinary signs are linked to divine wisdom, not to a requirement that every individual receive identical signs on demand.